Emacs lost the editor wars ~15 years ago. Use an IDE, you filthy barbarians. There is no substitute for a real IDE when it comes to seamless transition between

Emacs lost the editor wars ~15 years ago. Use an IDE, you filthy barbarians. There is no substitute for a real IDE when it comes to seamless transition between writing code with full autocomplete support and using the debugger to step through and examine the behavior of that code. And yes, God damn it, you need a debugger. You need edit and continue. You really need structured editing and it's a crime that this isn't available for every programming language, everywhere, in 2023. Modern IDEs give you all these things except for maybe the last in a smooth integrated fashion, and this has been the case for decades now. Using anything else when this is available is like breaking your legs in preparation for the 50m dash. For God's sake, Visual Studio got you 90% of the way to a Lisp machine type dev experience. In the early 2000s, for C++ and other languages people actually use. And Unix weenies still insisted on their stone-knives-and-bearskins tooling, to all our collective detriment. For languages without robust IDE support, Visual Studio Code will get you most of the way there with the click of a button. Releasing VSCode support including LSP for your language is now table stakes if you want to introduce a new language people will actually use.